everyone has a few stories about bad
drivers either you're the bad driver or
your friend is or you just saw a bad
driver doing something crazy one day the
worst is when you're in a car with the
bad driver and they're having a regular
conversation with you seemingly
oblivious to the fact that they're a law
unto themselves out in these roads i've
been in a car with someone traveling
down the wrong side of the road while
they continue talking as if everything
was normal and i'm thinking
what the hell is going on do they even
know they're putting our lives at risk
should i even bring this up or are we
both just going to continue as if
nothing out of the ordinary is happening
is this how i'm going to die having a
conversation about the housing market
but in ireland there's one bad driver
that stands out among all the rest this
is for a number of reasons but perhaps
the most interesting is that they were a
phantom their identity was as fluid as
the air
so who or what was this mysterious bad
driver we'll open up this story with a
little trivia for ya in ireland we don't
call the police force the police we call
them the guards now obviously many
countries have their own names for their
police but it's usually just police in
whatever the local language is not so in
ireland where the police force's
official name is ungarda shiokana which
is gaelic and means the guards or
guardian of the peace we just call them
the guards usually in my videos i just
refer to them as the police because
otherwise no one is going to know what
i'm talking about without that preamble
but now i can finally call them the
guards in a video while in 2007 the
guards encountered an anomaly on one of
their databases over 50 traffic
violations all committed by one person
they were a polish national by the name
of pravo yazdi yes these crimes included
everything from speeding to parking
violations and they'd been committed all
over the country so how did usd become
ireland's most prolific traffic offender
without the guards even noticing until
now i mean you'd think if this person
was getting pulled over so often their
name would probably start getting some
recognition before it came up in the
database i can't imagine asking an fbi
agent about someone on the most wanted
list and they say oh yeah i'd never even
heard of that guy he just came up when i
sorted by number of crimes in descending
order even more perplexing was how yazdy
kept committing these crimes usually
you're only allowed a handful of
violations before your license is
revoked and i mean if you keep driving
after that and you keep getting caught
breaking the rules of the road when
you're not even supposed to be behind
the wheel how do you not go to prison
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you know you didn't indicate going
through that junction there [ __ ]
it's not you bravo
i should have known we damp in your knee
you were going very fast there when you
went through that old junction there
provo attack the light was red you
nearly killed that old woman pack are
those kinds of karpaki sitting in the
seat beside your bravo attack i know you
haven't been drinking them now have your
travel attack and it looks like you've
turned one of the empty cans into some
sort of makeshift pipe attack you
haven't been smoking crack and driving
again have you attack
well all right then so let's be on your
way dove is in you bye
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looking into the matter further the
guards discovered that probably asd had
given a different home address in every
encounter was this how they somehow
managed to fly under the radar for so
long
no
something was very wrong here if you
speak polish you've known what went
wrong from the second i said the name
pravoyasd that's because pravoyasd isn't
a name it's the polish for driver's
license yes in over 50 separate
incidents a guard had written up someone
using a polish driver's license and
mistook pravoyasti for their name here's
a contemporary sample of a polish
driver's license so you can see how
stupid that is i mean even if for some
reason you didn't ask the person their
name so you could verify which one of
these details corresponds with the
phonetics how could you think this one
was the name i mean jesus come on this
happened 50 [ __ ] times i wonder are
there any entries in the database under
the name of
i should also point out that it's
possible not all the entries were
mistakes maybe some offenders
intentionally misled guards as to their
identity after being caught breaking the
law so why was the worst traffic
offender in ireland polish surely if
they were dumb enough to misread the
polish license they'd be dumb enough to
misread any other foreign license too
right why was the polish license the
worst offender well polish was ireland's
second largest immigration population
around that time with the immigrants
from the uk being the largest actually
the polish have since dethroned the
brits in this regard and just
anecdotally i've known a few polish
people and they seem to have a general
enthusiasm for cars so maybe that's
partially the reason pravoyasd racked up
as many traffic violations as they did
of course i have no scientific evidence
to back this up and this wild
generalization may even be considered
offensive to those of you of polish
descent to whom i offered these pictures
of cars as an apology
yeah look at that yeah you like that
don't you oh
you can make that one your profile
picture on facebook after the discovery
an internal memo was sent out among the
guards pointing out the embarrassing
mistake and calling for new guidelines
to be put in place on the system this
has supposedly been done and in 2013 a
common format for driving licenses was
introduced for all countries in the
european economic area of which both
ireland and poland are part for the
mistake the guards were awarded the egg
nobel prize in literature in 2009. the
prize is satirical in nature and is to
honor achievements that first make
people laugh and then make them think
the award was accepted by a polish
national who had received a ticket in
ireland what a neat little story this is
usually the part of the video where i
ask you to subscribe and to check out my
merch and buy a channel membership but
well i'm still gonna ask you to do those
things but seeing as the video hasn't
been that long why not throw in a stupid
little joke that i've heard before a
lawyer over from london is in ireland
for the weekend after running a stop
sign he gets pulled over by a guard
annoyed that he's being pulled over he
decides to put his education as a lawyer
to good use and have some fun at the
guard's expense the guard comes up to
the window and asks for the license and
registration what for it didn't come to
a complete stop at that stop sign i
slowed down and no one was coming you
failed to come to a complete stop
license and registration please what's
the difference the difference is that
you have to come to a complete stop it's
a stop sign that's the law if you can
show me the legal difference between
stop and slow down i'll give you my
license and registration and you can
give me a ticket and if not you let me
go and i'll be out here here sounds fair
enough please step out of the vehicle
the london lawyer gets out of his car
the guard pulls out his baton and starts
beating the [ __ ] out of the lawyer now
do you want me to stop or slow down
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